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Thought on Parshas Tetzaveh:

Parshas Tetzaveh is the only one that omits Moshe’s name. The Ba’al HaTurim gives the reason as stemming from Moshe’s request of Mechaini Noh Misifrecha, erase me from Your book (the Torah). The question is why this Parsha?

Answer: Although Parshas Terumah discusses the commandment to build the Mishkan, it is Parshas Teztaveh that discusses Hashem’s promise that He will descend with His Shechina, and santify the Mishkan. Subsequently the Jews will know (to an unprecedented degree) that He has taken them out of Mitzrayim.

The Midda (character trait) that is the greatest prerequisite for the residing of the Shechina, is that of Anava, self effacement. About a ba’al gaiva, Hashem says “Me and him cannot dwell together” Midda Tova Merubah, we can infer that Hashem desires to dwell, so to speak, with an Anav. The highest expression of anava is mesiras nefesh, one who completely negates his own existence for that of his Creator. It is this mechaini noh of Moshe Rabbeinu that enabled the permanant Hashroas Hashechina within klal Yisroel in the Mishkan.